Bucovina

Or Bu·ko·vi·na

[boo-kuh-vee-nuh, boo-kaw-vee-nah]

noun

1. a region in E central Europe, formerly a district in N Romania: now divided between Romania and Ukraine. 4,031 sq. mi. (10,440 sq. km).

Bucovina

/ ˌbuːkəˈviːnə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of Bukovina

Example Sentences

From Bechet, a port town on the Danube River near the border of Bulgaria in the south, to Maramures, which borders Ukraine to the north, and then east to Bucovina, cutting south through Moldova back to Bucharest, I circled Romania in search of weavers still making kilims, one of the country’s highest forms of folk art.

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From Sapanta, I wound east through the Carpathian Mountains to Gura Humorului in Bucovina, a lovely if slow drive, passing through tree-covered mountains that open onto bucolic vistas.

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As a child, in 1909, he proposed a Latin name for a subspecies of poplar admiral that he had spotted near his family’s estate, only to be told by a famous entomologist that the subspecies had already been identified, in Bucovina, in 1897.

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The accident occurred late Sunday outside the eastern city of Ramnicu Sarat when the team was returning home from a game against Vicov Bucovina.

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Letter: Memories of the Bucovina To the Editor: There are two books that capture the world of the Bucovina between the world wars.

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